Frommer's. The best trips start here. Visit us online at Frommers.co.uk
"...an indispensable guide for families travelling to Portugal's south coast." (Travel Trade Gazette, Friday 18th January 2008)
Put the Fun Back into Family Holidays
With your family has all the inside knowledge and advice for a trouble-free holiday full of fabulous memories for all the family.
Discover a destination with:
- Warm, inviting weather all year round
- Child-friendly, sandy beaches and coves
- Cobbled medieval towns and lively fishing villages
- Historic castles and fortresses to explore
- Impressive local food markets and buzzing street-scenes
- Family accommodation and dining to suit every budget
Let Frommer's show you where your family can:
- Learn to surf, sail or kite-board with the pros
- See a web-footed Portuguese water dog
- Discover a traffic-free, idyllic castaway island
- Visit a spooky chapel of ancient skulls
- Stay overnight in a real castle with turrets
- Find the best spot for a beach picnic
Frommer's. The best trips start here. Visit us online at Frommers.co.uk
Robin Gauldie began travelling in the early 1970s and has never stopped. He first visited the Algarve and the Alentejo in 1972 and has returned many times since. When not travelling, he divides his time between a home in Edinburgh and a very ramshackle village house in southern France. He has been a full-time travel journalist since 1979.
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By K. V. A. Iyer
I bought Frommer's `The Algarve with your Family' after having finalised my travel plan to Algarve region of Portugal lest I may miss out something unique.
For three days during August 2009 I did carriage driving through dirt tracks of the rolling hills of Espinhaçao do Câo in the border of Lagos and Aljesur - where Mr. David Fry and his son Manny, who are accomplished horsemen, provide excellent facilities for horseback riding and carriage driving. The horses are happy and looked after well in their 50 acre property, which was formerly a hill farm. This is a family friendly facility having level headed horses that are friendly even to beginners.
I do not find any mention of this facility in the book. It would be good to include the details - available at [...]
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By Beth
We just returned from a week in Algarve and piurchased this book, hoping the "local scoop" would help us find the true jewels. Not so much. Though some of this travel book is done well, we found it to be quite overrated with the "sites"... making a simple site out to be much more than it really was. For example, the Portugese water dogs at the Rio de Formose Natural Preserve were talked up quite highly. We were quite surprised with how simple the entire "preserve" was- thre was only one water dog to look at and honestly, it wasn't that exciting or impressive... sorry folks. The sites that are listed don't have good (or any at times) directions to them, which would have been quite helpful for us.
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